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A psychologist testing an Asian-American child whose primary language is not English repeated the test instructions to the child and had the child repeat the instructions back until the tester was sure she understood. This is...

acceptable where permitted in the test manual

For young children, which 2 things are critical ingredients of Vygotsky's zone of proximal development?

pretend play and
play w/adults

In Vascular Dementia impairment is...

uneven early on (i.e., significantly greater in some intellectual functions than in others)

Alzheimer's disease impairment is...

even & progressive

When women diagnosed with bulimia are compared to controls, it has been found that they tend to come from families which are...

enmeshed, dependent, & high in conflict

narcolepsy & cataplexy are triggered by...

strong emotion

If a client files an ethics complaint against you and the APA's ethics committee asks you for that client's records, you should..

supply the records to the committee

Name 3 things about assessment centers...

- used for managers
- use work samples like the in-basket technique
- valid for predicting job success

the first step in designing a training program is to...

conduct a needs assessment

job enrichment involves...

giving employee more responsibility

To eliminate responses learned through avoidance conditioning, use...

classical extinction

As one gets older, the proportion of REM sleep to non-REM sleep...

decreases

An individual faced with a choice between two equally attractive alternatives (an "approach-approach" conflict) chooses one of the alternatives over the other. As a result...

The chosen alternative will seem more attractive, while the unchosen alternative will seem less attractive

What reflects the number of scores that, given a fixed value (e.g., a sample mean) are "free to vary"?

degrees of freedom

When empirical criterion keying is used to develop a test, items chosen for inclusion are those that:

distinguish between preselected groups or subgroups

Psychologist who talks about latent learning?

Tolman

Eta (aka correlation ratio) is used to measure the relationship between variables when the relationship is...

non-linear

LISREL and other forms of structural equation modeling are particularly useful for analyzing data collected from a...

non-experimental study

When are psychologist recommendations about parental custody ok?

when based on a thorough evaluation

To maximize referent power you would be best advised to:

engage in role-modeling and treat subordinates fairly

For an Adlerian, a child's misbehavior is most likely:

a misguided attempt to belong

Offense history has been found to be a good predictor of re-offense among juvenile offenders. Of the offense history factors, what 3 things are predictive of re-offense:

1. age of first contact w/the law,
2. age at commencement of first offense,
3. length of first incarceration

The "Zeigarnik effect" is most likely to occur in...

non stressful situations

As defined by Bandura, self-efficacy beliefs have four sources. These are:

Test users who do not have adequate knowledge or experience in modifying tests for individuals with disabilities should...

seek guidance from a lawyer, consultant, or supervisor who has expertise regarding the test

As a result of damage to the right __________, a person is able to point to objects and avoid bumping into them but is unable to name them or describe their purpose:

occipital

As originally defined by Tatum and Seevers (1931), "habituation" occurs when:

a person desires a drug but does not experience adverse effects when he/she discontinues it

Research suggests that, in comparison to popular children, less popular children tend to be what 3 things?

1. intelligent,
2. cooperative,
3. physically attractive

A middle-aged man with brain damage cannot pantomime motor movements when requested to do so (e.g., cannot pretend to open a door with a key) but usually has less trouble performing the same movements when using actual objects. The damage causing this impairment is most likely located in the man's:

the rater is provided with a list of behavioral examples and asked to indicate whether the ratee’s performance is equal to, worse than, or better than the performance

When assessing the reliability and validity of a job selection test, your sample includes current employees who are all doing fairly well on the job. The nature of your sample will most likely have which of the following effects:

deflate both correlations (reliability & validity)

Goal-setting theory applies best to what type of tasks?

simpler ones

Bandura's social learning theory implies that, in organizational settings, a training program will be most effective when what 4 things are included?